Biography: life and films
Joan Crawford was an American actress whose birth name was Lucille Fay LeSueur. She was born in San Antonio, Texas, USA on 23rd March 1904 and died in New York City, New York, USA on 10th May 1977, aged 73.Her best films as an actor include Tod Browning's thriller The Unknown (1927), Edmund Goulding's Grand Hotel (1932), Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce (1945), Curtis Bernhardt's Possessed (1947) and Nicholas Ray's Johnny Guitar (1954).
Joan Crawford appeared in 101 films.
She has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jack Conway (5 films), Clarence Brown (5), W.S. Van Dyke (4), Harry Beaumont (4), Frank Borzage (4), William Nigh (3), Vincent Sherman (3), George Cukor (3), Edmund Goulding (3), William Castle (2), Robert Z. Leonard (2), Robert Aldrich (2), Michael Curtiz (2), Jean Negulesco (2), Jack Haley Jr. (2), Fred Niblo (2), Edward Sedgwick (2) and David Miller (2).
Her most frequent genres include: drama (56 films), romance (23), comedy-drama (14), comedy (14), comedy-romance (12), Thriller (12), Documentary (10), Horror (7), War (4), crime-thriller (3), comedy-thriller (3), Western (3) and history (2).
Our average rating for Joan Crawford over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: a = actor
A Slave of Fashion (1925) [a]
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) [a]
Old Clothes (1925) [a]
Pretty Ladies (1925) [a]
Sally, Irene and Mary (1925) [a]
The Only Thing (1925) [a]
Paris (1926) [a]
The Boob (1926) [a]
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) [a]
Spring Fever (1927) [a]
The Taxi Dancer (1927) [a]
The Understanding Heart (1927) [a]
Twelve Miles Out (1927) [a]
West Point (1927) [a]
Winners of the Wilderness (1927) [a]
Across to Singapore (1928) [a]
Dream of Love (1928) [a]
Four Walls (1928) [a]
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) [a]
Rose-Marie (1928) [a]
The Law of the Range (1928) [a]
Our Modern Maidens (1929) [a]
The Duke Steps Out (1929) [a]
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) [a]
Untamed (1929) [a]
Montana Moon (1930) [a]
Our Blushing Brides (1930) [a]
Paid (1930) [a]
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) [a]
Laughing Sinners (1931) [a]
Possessed (1931) [a]
This Modern Age (1931) [a]
Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931) [a]
Letty Lynton (1932) [a]
Rain (1932) [a]
Dancing Lady (1933) [a]
Today We Live (1933) [a]
Chained (1934) [a]
Forsaking All Others (1934) [a]
Sadie McKee (1934) [a]
I Live My Life (1935) [a]
No More Ladies (1935) [a]
Love on the Run (1936) [a]
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) [a]
Mannequin (1937) [a]
The Bride Wore Red (1937) [a]
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937) [a]
The Shining Hour (1938) [a]
The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939) [a]
The Women (1939) [a]
Strange Cargo (1940) [a]
A Woman's Face (1941) [a]
When Ladies Meet (1941) [a]
Reunion in France (1942) [a]
They All Kissed the Bride (1942) [a]
Above Suspicion (1943) [a]
Hollywood Canteen (1944) [a]
Daisy Kenyon (1947) [a]
Possessed (1947) [a]
Flamingo Road (1949) [a]
It's a Great Feeling (1949) [a]
The Damned Don't Cry (1950) [a]
Goodbye, My Fancy (1951) [a]
Sudden Fear (1952) [a]
This Woman Is Dangerous (1952) [a]
Torch Song (1953) [a]
Female on the Beach (1955) [a]
Queen Bee (1955) [a]
Autumn Leaves (1956) [a]
The Story of Esther Costello (1957) [a]
The Best of Everything (1959) [a]
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) [a]
The Caretakers (1963) [a]
Della (1964) [a]
Four Days in November (1964) [a]
Strait-Jacket (1964) [a]
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) [a]
I Saw What You Did (1965) [a]
The Love Goddesses (1965) [a]
Berserk (1967) [a]
The Karate Killers (1967) [a]
Journey to Midnight (1968) [a]
Trog (1970) [a]
Journey to Murder (1971) [a]
That's Entertainment! (1974) [a]
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976) [a]
That's Action (1977) [a]
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [a]
That's Dancing! (1985) [a]
Going Hollywood: The War Years (1988) [a]
That's Entertainment! III (1994) [a]
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